Re: PDF Indexing

[Golda Velez <gvelez@iwhome.com>]

Did you remember to check the "Use filters" box in the search form?
Otherwise glimpse will not be run with the "-z" option and will not
actually use the filters.

--G

At 10:44 AM 4/21/00 -0400, Robert Morse wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I have installed glimpse-4.12.6 and webglimpse-1.7.6edu.
>I have them working well with html files. I followed the
>directions to index PDF files (I tried both Ghostscript and
>xpdf) but it doesn't seem to be indexing the pdf files correctly.
>
>I have made the changes to wgreindex, .glimpse_filters, and the 
> .wgfilter-index files appropriately, but still my search does 
>not return anything when I search for text that is in the PDF
>document. There are no errors during the index and it does tell
>me that it gets the PDF files. However, I can search on the title
>of the PDF document and it will return it, but it still is not right.
>
>Here is the result of searching for "September", which is in the title
>of the document:
>
>
>http://axp105.ams.org/secretary/council-minutes0992.pdf, Apr 20 2000
>
>     99 0 obj << /CreationDate (D:19990310130217) /Producer (Acrobat
Distiller 
>Command 3.01 for Solaris 2.3 and later\(SPARC\)) /Creator (dvips\(k\) 5.78 
>Copyright 1998 Radical Eye Software \(www.radicaleye.com\ \)) /Title
(September
>8
>1992 Council Minutes) /ModDate (D:19990310131018) >> endobj xref 99 1
0000104947 
>00000 n trailer << /Size 100/Info 99 0 R /Root 98 0 R /Prev 102788   
>/ID[<932ef60fec635f1addbb873a7042389d><4734f53558fc99dc9e96a3a08303e6d5>] >> 
>startxref 105241 %%EOF 
>
>
>Should it matter that I am doing this on a Digital Unix machine? When I
run the
>commands to convert to text (usexpdf.pl or processpdf.pl), the text comes out
>fine.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>-- 
>Bob Morse
>System Administrator
>American Mathematical Society
>401 455 4162
>
>
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